Lasting-tool



(No Model.)

' 0. H. HELMS.

LASTING TOOL.

No. 382,874; Patented May 15, 1888.

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CHARLES H. HELMS, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEWV YORK, ASSIGN OR TO GEORGE H. P. FLAGG, TRUSTEE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

LASTI NG-TOCL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,874, dated May 15, 1888.

Application filed February 3,1886. Serial No. 190.878. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: invention not only seizes the material operated Be it known that I, CHARLES H. HELMs, of on to stretch it over the last in the weltknown Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and way, but also crimps the material at the same 3 5 State of New York, have invented a new and operation.

5 useful Improvement in Lasting'Tools, of which In the drawings, jaw a has recesses a. The the following is a specification, reference bejaw Z2 has projections I), which enter recesses lug had to the accompanying drawings, in a when the jaws are closed. When jaws are whicl1-- used in lasting, it is evident that the leather, 40

Figure 1 is a view of a pair of myjaws pivfor instance, will be seized, crimped, and se- IO oted together, the handle being broken off. curelyheld, projections b crowding theleather Fig. 2 is a section of a pair of pinchers eminto recesses a. bodying my invention on line x of Fig. 1. In that form of my invention shown in the Fig. 3 shows the inner face of the recessed drawings, A and B are the handles, and a 1, jaw, and Fig. 4 the outer face of the same. the hammer-head commonly used in lasting- 1 Fig. 5 shows the outer face of the other jaw, pinchers.

and Fig. 6 the inner face of the same. Fig. 7 I am aware of Nallys Patent No. 325,267, a is a section online 3/ y of Fig. 2. dated September 1, 1885, and disclaim all that My invention consists in two jaws, one of is shown in it. I am also aware of Green- 0 which is recessed longitudinally to receive one walds patent, No. 316,357, of 1885, and dis or more longitudinal projections on the other claim all that is shown in it.

jaw, whereby the material operated on is \Vhat I claim is-- seized and crimped substantially at one and The lastingtool consisting of jaws a b, jaw the same closing together of the jaws; and I a providedwith one or more longitudinal re- 55 have shown my invention as embodied in a cesses, a, and jaw b with one or more longihand-tool, which is the best way now known tudinal projections, b, which enter recesses a to me of reducing my invention to practice; when thejaws are closed, thereby seizing and but it is obvious that my invention may be crimping the material, substantially as and for embodied in lasting-machines as well as handthe purpose set forth.

tools. CHARLES H. HELMS. The practical advantage of my invention YVitnesscs: over other lasting devices known to me lies in E. S. BEACH,

the fact that a machine or tool embodying my JOHN R. SNOW. 

